Re: using the test salution?

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I have a question about this, now can a person

get a good reading if they were to poke

themselves in the top of the arm or something like that?

just wondering.At 02:48 PM 3/20/2012, you wrote:

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>I've been told a lot when in the hospital that

>my skin is real tough to poke. I have noticed at

>home I need to hit my finger 2 and some times 3

>times before I can get a good drop for the

>meter. I have also noticed if I didn't get a

>good poke the meter won't pick up any blood the

>first few seconds I put my finger I poked up to

>the strip. if I got a good poke and blood is

>there, the meter will suck it up in a few

>seconds. I also fine I do better getting blood

>from my right hand fingers instead of the left

>hand. one finger on the right hand is my

>favorite to poke, but it gets really sore always

>going to it, so I move around. I do know where

>my reading should be and this is why I retest.

>most of the time if it takes me more then 30

>seconds to get blood on the strip I know by this

>I need to get out a new strip and start over. I

>didn't know if the testing solution was suppose

>to clean the meter on the in side or was it just

>to make sure your meter is reading correctly?

>I've tried to use solution way back in the past,

>but have never really had much luck with using

>it. blood from my finger is a lot easier for me.

> using the test salution?

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>So far in 2 weeks I haven't tested my meter with

>the test solution. mainly the reason for this is

>the 2 bottles I got are both 2 years out dated.

>now where do I get a new bottle? plus how much

>should I test my meter with the solution? best I

>recall with out looking, that each bottle of

>strips has a range as where the test should be

>if it is correct? am I correct or wrong about

>this? I'm wondering because this morning my

>first test said my sugar was 98. ok this I know

>was wrong. so I try again. this time it was 138.

>this could be right, but tried again and the

>third time was 121. I'm going with the 138

>because this is closer to where it runs first

>thing of a morning. makes me wonder if all the

>other days are coming out like this morning? 2

>weeks ago I did take it at home before going to

>see the specialist and his 140 test was very

>close to my reading before of 137. I know these

>meters will never always be right and there is a

>ten% or higher error in our readings either way.

>well anyway I suppose I just need to get a new

>bottle of test solution at my drug store is

>where I will look first. I believe the

>instruction said to test once a week, but it has

>been a few years since I looked at that disk.

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